<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Mcdowell, Nathan Gabriel</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcdowell@lanl.gov">mcdowell@lanl.gov</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:39 AM<br>Subject: [CCSM-participants] Postdoc at Los Alamos on Tropical Forest Mortality<br>To: "<a href="mailto:ccsm-participants@cgd.ucar.edu">ccsm-participants@cgd.ucar.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:ccsm-participants@cgd.ucar.edu">ccsm-participants@cgd.ucar.edu</a>><br><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please post this postdoc add to the CCSM list. Thanks!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Postdoctoral fellowship</u> in climate impacts on tropical forests at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Summary</b>: A postdoctoral position is available within the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division to explore patterns of tree mortality in tropical forests and their potential impact on the tropical forest carbon cycle. Using large-scale
and long-term plot data, the successful candidate will test hypotheses on climatic, environmental, and functional mechanisms driving spatial and temporal variation in tropical tree mortality. The successful applicant will work with long-term inventory datasets
that span the tropics, and will work as part of a team of empirical and modeling focused researchers. The project is part of an innovative, multi-institutional effort (Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment-Tropics) focused on determining the fate of tropical
forests as climate changes.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Required skills </b>include experience analyzing and interpreting large datasets, demonstrated ability to publish peer-reviewed papers, effective written and oral communication skills, willingness to work in a team environment, and a
Ph.D. pending or received within the last five years. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Desired skills </b>include knowledge of physiological, ecosystem, population, or community ecology and programming in R, matlab or Python. W<span style="color:black">e encourage applicants who can work across disciplines and draw upon
large and unique data sets to study linkages between large-scale climate and forest processes.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For more information or to apply </b>For details of postdoc benefits and life at LANL, please see
<a href="http://www.lanl.gov/careers/career-options/postdoctoral-research/postdoc-program/" target="_blank">
http://www.lanl.gov/careers/career-options/postdoctoral-research/postdoc-program/</a>. Please send a resume and a short statement of your future research goals to Nate McDowell (<a href="mailto:mcdowell@lanl.gov" target="_blank">mcdowell@lanl.gov</a>,
<a href="http://climateresearch.lanl.gov/" target="_blank">http://climateresearch.lanl.gov/</a>).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="color:black">Candidates may be considered for a Director's Fellowship and outstanding candidates may be considered for the prestigious J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard P. Feynman or Frederick Reines
Fellowships. For general information about LANL’s postdoctoral program please refer to the above
</span>Postdoctoral Program<span style="color:#00009a"> </span><span style="color:black">page.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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